Captain John McClure’s Company, 1805

 

Robert C. Carpenter, Contributor

Kathy Gunter Sullivan, Transcriber, 2010

 

Robert C. Carpenter:

Capt McClure's Company is in present southeastern Gaston County. It is a very large district including present Belmont and the South Point area, Mt. Holly and the area surrounding that present town. The eastern boundary was the Catawba River as far north as Fites Creek. The northern boundary most likely followed Fite's Creek. An arbitrary line then ran west and crossed the South Fork River near present Lowell. The district most likely included Duharts Creek and ran west to Catawba Creek. The district included present Cramerton and included both sides of Catawba Creek. An arbitrary line ran from Catawba Creek until the South Carolina line. Members of the following families represented present Belmont and South Point area: Henry, Wells, Hand, Stowe, Leeper, Armstrong, Gullick, and Hanks. Families in the present North Belmont and Fites Creek/Mt. Holly area included the Fite, Caldwell, Davenport, and McKee families. As the northern boundary crossed the South Fork River and moved into the Duhart's and Catawba Creek areas families included Titman, Berry/Barry, Foard, Gingles, Mellon, Brison, Reagan, Kindrick, Hartt, and McClure. The district ran to the South Carolina line and included families in that area: McLean, Ratchford, Berry, and Huson (Hudson).

 

Capt. McClure's tax district was within the 11th Company of the 1790 Lincoln County census. A few persons may be included in the 10th Company of the 1790 Lincoln County census but most appear to be within the 11th Company. This tax list by 1805 was quite affluent. The taxables included two cotton gins, three stud horses, and more black polls were taxed than white polls. The large slaveholding ownership suggests more financial status. Some landowners held large tracts of land. Most of the people within this district were English speaking. I identified the Fite family as German and possibly the Titman family.  Clearly this was an English-speaking and affluent area

 

Kathy Gunter Sullivan:

The district remained McClure’s until 1809 when at least some of it became Gingles’s. The 1810 census identifies pages 479-480 as Gingles’s Company. Although not labeled, some of McClure’s 1805 Company residents are enumerated in 1810 on pages 406-407, 412, 417, 419-420.

 

Captain John McClure’s Company, 1805

Lincoln County Tax Lists 1805 [sic]-1806; box no. CR.060.701.4, North Carolina State Archives. 

State of North Carolina Lincoln County

A Duplicate return of the Taxables in Captain John McClures company Taken for the year 1805 Taken by Order of Court by Joseph Neel JP

 

 

I had not Room to insert the above Returns in Regular Order

Sir you will be pleased to give them a place in your list

 

To the Worshipful Court of Lincoln County October term 1805

A Duplicate Return of the Taxables in Capt Jno McClures Company

 

Land 24,615

White Polls 87

Black Polls 97

Studs 3 @ season [total] £4.10.0

Cotton Gins 2 [total of] 70 Saws

 

Duplicate Made Out